Spam should indeed be criminalised, but what should the penalty be? I think the only fait punishment would be having "spammer" branded on the forehead ;-)
For a start, permanent confiscation of all of their computer-related gear AND an absolute ban on their replacing it. Branding not a bad idea at all... though one US spammer I saw interviewed on the news was not at ALL unhappy to talk about it, and plans to increase beyond the 180 MILLION spams he sends out every day to clog up your & my PCI-PowerMac.
I was thinking more on the order of, for those caught, solitary confinement with a computer that would only receive email and a browser that would only respond to clicked links from those emails. They would have to view each email, go to each site, and then hand write a twenty page minimum critic on the site. Their confinement would end when the spam ended.
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